A CD image viewer and extractor 84

In a message on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:58:30 -0500, wrote :

This only works for actual CDs. The OP only has CD *images* (ISO files). Editingetc-fstab in this way won't work, unless the sysadmin puts in a whole slew of lines like:

path-to-some-cdimage1.iso mnt-cdimage1 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0path-to-some-cdimage2.iso mnt-cdimage2 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0path-to-some-cdimage3.iso mnt-cdimage3 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0path-to-some-cdimage4.iso mnt-cdimage4 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0path-to-some-cdimage5.iso mnt-cdimage5 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0path-to-some-cdimage6.iso mnt-cdimage6 iso9660 noauto,ro,user,loop 0 0

Which is rather a sysadmin nightmare.

It *might* make sense for the sysadmin to create a pair special scripts and set the OP up in theetc-sudoers file. One of the special scripts would take two parameters, the ISO file and a mount point (in the user's directory) and would mount the ISO file at that mount point. The other script would unmount it. The scripts would need to check and validate their parameters of course...